FreeBSD Install config
Paul Robinson
paul at akita.co.uk
Wed Dec 19 17:18:34 GMT 2001
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 4:58 pm, Ian Pallfreeman wrote:
> > 80% of disk for /
> > 20% of disk for /var
> > A little bit for swap
>
> Um, if you're going in this direction, why not merge /var too?
I normally do! The commonly accepted reasons why it's not a great idea though
are:
1. If stuff is writing to /var and fills the disk, you're screwed - DoS,
badly behavioured daemons, etc. - go away for a bank holiday and come back to
a very poorly box
2. If stuff is going on / you would like some logging to still go on generally
3. You have to give a little something back to the guys who insist everything
should have it's own mountpoint. ;-)
I'm not a big fan of loads of mountpoints (as you probably guessed), mainly
because they're messy, painful to admin, and people always get it wrong. But
then, these days, I deal with boxes that have a wide range of uses and have
to be really flexible. If I was building a pure SMTP server, the above
probably wouldn't be how I'd go...
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Paul Robinson
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